Improvement in faucet-hole covers for ice-boxes



G. HANSON. Faucet-Hole Cover for Ice-Box.

Patented Feb. 11 1879.

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N.PETRs. PHGTO-LITHOGRAPHEH, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED S'rarns PATENT CHARLES HANSON, OF MOLLNE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO JAM-ES G. WELLS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FAUCET-HOLE COVERS FOR ICE-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 212,095, dated February11, 1879; application filed July 5, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES HANSON, of Moline, county of Rock Island,and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements inFaucet-Hole Covers for Ice- Boxes, which improvements are fully setforth in the annexed specification and in the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide for use upon ice-boxes, inwhich are packed kegs of beer to be cooled before and while bein g drawnfor use, a durable and effective outside cover for the faucet-holeswhich are necessarily made through wooden sides of said ice-boxes,providing thereby a practicable and ready means for entirely closingsuch holes when no faucet is in them, and for an equally effective meansfor tightly closing said openings around the faucets projecting throughsaid boxes, and in both cases so preventing the contents thereof fromescaping therefrom.

My faucet-hole cover consists of a metallic frame of oblong shape,having a suitable opening therein of corresponding form, and twointerchangeable slides, arranged to be inserted in guides affixed to theborders of said opening, so that said slides may be made to fit quitetightly between said guides and the face of said frame. One of saidslides is to be used when no faucet is in a keg behind it, and one whena faucet is in.

Referring tothe drawings, which consist of three figures, Figure 1 is aview of a portion of an ice-box containing two beer-kegs, and in which arepresents one of my improved covers closed before the faucet-hole, andin which I) shows one of mycovers with a faucet entering through it intothe keg inside of the box. Fig. 2 shows one of my covers detached fromthe ice-box, in which is a slide for closing the opening therein, as ata, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 shows one of my covers, likewise detached, inwhich is a slide, which is arranged to shut down against a faucet, as atb, Fig. 1.

B is the frame of the cover. 0 c are slideguides on the face of frame B,eachv side of the opening therein. D D are slides, fitted to movedtightly between slide-guides c c and the face of frame B. i arescrew-holes in frame B. F is an ice-box. r are ke s in said box. Boththe frame and slides of the cover I make of non-corrosive metal.

Heretofore no adequate convenient means have existed for tightly closingthe faucetopenings in a beer-keg ice-box, which must be done whenever akeg becomes empty and the faucet is withdrawn from it, so as to preventthe escape of the contents of the box, and said openings must be kepttightly closed while a fresh keg of beer, which replaces the empty one,is being cooled ready for drawing; but by screwing my frame B to the boxover the faucet-hole, and by pressing slide D down to the bottom of theopening in said frame, the hole becomes sufficiently tightly closed toanswer the aforesaid purpose.

It is the practice of sellers of beer to keep an ice-box that will holdseveral kegs at a time, so that some of them may be always cool fordrinking, and when one keg becomes emptied the faucet is withdrawn fromit and the keg taken out of the box and a full one put in its place.

My faucet hole covers are screwed onto the front side of the box, asshown in Fig. 1, at a; and when said change of kegs takes place, asabove stated, slide D is inserted in frame B and pressed down to thebottom of the opening therein, tightly shutting it. As soon as itbecomes necessary to draw from the keg just put into the box, slide D isdrawn up out of frame B, and a faucet is driven into the keg, and then aslide of the form of D is inserted into the frame in place of slide D,which is so formed as to close down tightly over the top side of thefaucet, its under side being closed upon by the bottom edge of thopening in frame B.

Slide D is provided with a groove, 00, to allow for a ventpipe sometimesused on the faucet.

That I claim as my invention is The combination, with the ice-box F, ofthe frame B, constructed to receive the interchan geable slides D and D,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES HANSON.

Witnesses:

FREDRIG APPELQUIST, JOHN FLANAGAN.

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